[Small-Appliance-Cooking] Resolution or accessible appliances

[Sabra Ewing]

I understand that this list is sponsored by the crafters division. I believe that we need a resolution to address the large number of an accessible appliances that are excluding blind people. If an accessible websites the violate the ADA, some of these appliance manufacturers should be taken to task as well. They are going above and beyond to exclude blind people by creating an accessible touch screens that are impossible to label because the menus change. I was trying to get a new coffee maker, and it was very hard to find one with buttons. Smart appliances are also great, but blind people should not be forced to use them to make up for lack of accessibility. We are paying customers and we deserve to be able to buy appliances that we can use. We do not deserve to get shut out of all of these new appliances, and we do not deserve companies that go so far as to put in their instructions manual that we should not use their products. This is wrong because it is discriminatory, and if a blind person is using a product, and that product actually is defective, unsafe, or has a problem, the company can try to get out of it by saying that a blind person should not have been using it in the first place according to their manual. I do not know how to write a resolution or I would do it. I don't even know what resolution would help. And we will also have to frame the resolution in such a way that other blind people won't take away focus from it by saying that we are entitled for wanting access to smart appliances like they did with the Apple resolution. What do you all think? 

Sabra Ewing